Category: Thelema
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The Symbols in the Thoth Deck
The Thoth deck was designed by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Freida Harris. It was compiled in the last few years of Aleister Crowley’s life and he also published a book about it called the Book of Thoth. This deck is perhaps the most symbol-heavy deck of tarot cards you will ever see. If…
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The Tarot
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For a Brief History of the Tarot click below. Composition of the Smith-Waite-Rider deck This deck consists of 78 cards. 22 of them are called Trumps, Atus or the Major Arcana. The remaining 56 are the Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana is divided into 4 suits: Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Each suit has 10…
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The Mistake of Modern Morality
It’s a beautiful thing to live in a modern, evolved and respectively-lefty society that I live in. The type of society that most of Europe and Canada live in. LGBTQIA+ identity is more openly accepted than ever before and those that do not accept our identity often find themselves silenced and censored. Their views unwelcome…
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Elemental King work
So this is a visualisation exercise, which is really designed to help inspire relationships with each element. Make or Practice using your Dreamspace Firstly you need to form a good dreamspace, temple of the self or inner temple. This is a place in your mind that you can go to that is like your happy…
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Emerald Tablet
The emerald tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Tablet, is one of the most famous Hermetic texts. This has influenced much of magic and occultism going forward. If you ever heard the words “As Below So Above” and “As Above So Below” they are quoting the Emerald Tablet. It’s not that old! It’s only around…
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Hiding of Hermetic Knowledge
This is one of a few articles, which look at philosophy and religion as is seen in the Corpus Hermeticum or Hermetica. The focus of this is actually the Latin Aesclepius which is clearly also a Hermetic text by the reference to the same entities. The original article for which this is a stub can…
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Thelemites and Money
What is this? Thanks for coming to read . Tthis article. It’s incomplete right now. This is slowing being written as a course designed to make Thelemites think about money from a more Thelemic point of view and thereby be better with money. I’m hoping eventually it will be a full course that anyone can…
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The Secret Written History of Magic
One of things we are very lucky to have is the Ancient Greeks because for a long time they formed a written culture which was not afraid to practice magic or consider new ideas about deity. From the ancient philosophers comes a long line of written philosophy on how to practice a form of magic.…
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The Divine and the Metadivine
The creation of the world and it’s importance to Magic Many practitioners of magic opt for the scientific view of creation. They view the stories of creation as a poetic exploration of powers / forces of nature that encouraged the world to form. They often conclude that they are an expression of creativity. Some believe…
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The Aeon of Osiris
When Thelema arrived in 1904, it was recognized by adherents to the faith that the world or at least the consciousness of the West had changed fundamentally. This was referred to as a new Aeon, called the Aeon of Horus. Quickly attempts were made to classify the previous periods where other mindsets had predominated. Each…